The Holiday: A Chough's Tale - The Manor House Stories. [Illustrated and SIGNED by Jani Tully Chaplin**.]

UK,slim 12mo s/back,author SIGNED,illustrated,1st edn. [No publisher credited but a local (Bodmin) Specsavers and 2 Cornish food companies are associated with it's sponsorship and publication. Printed by Cambrian Printers (UK),2016.The original, first 12 titles in this series were all (UK),12mo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edns.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten ink inscrptn+signature thus: 'To Anoushka Jani Tully Chaplin with love (and a small heart shape doodle to revers of the title page and no price removal from rear cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,coloured pictorial artwork by Jani Tully Chaplin,illustrated card covers with red letters to front,black letters to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edge - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,white and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading crease to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation - pristine.UK,slim 12mo s/back,author SIGNED, illustrated 1st edn,1-46pp [paginated] includes part-page and 12 full-page full colour illustrations throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] colour vignetted title page printed text to both front and rear internal sides of covers; front with author note,a foreword by Julian Fellowes and author's potted family history connections with Jani,Beatrix Potter,The National Trust and Poldark.Rear inside cover printed with acknowledgements from the 3 local sponsors with company logos for 2 of them.
This tale follows the adventures of some five or so of her characters; Miranda Mistlethrush, the Willow Tit twins, Arthur and Sebastian, Rory Redshank the Footman, Sailor Oswald Seagull the Coastguard and Charles Pencarrow Poldrake Treyarnon Chough.Others mentioned include Chesterfield Penguin the Butler,Marzipan Mouse, Delia Duck the Cook,and Sarah Sparrow,the Scullery Maid.Towards end of story,how to make a shell box and facts+trivia about the Chough bird.
See also,my book ID's rja64811 - the 1st story of the original series (SIGNED,1st edn), rja735117,rja812118 and rja827219 for the scarce 3rd title in the series - all 3,1st edn examples also author SIGNED. [This 3rd title sold out immediately on publication and was only available from the author directly,whilst awaiting a new publisher and is very scarce.] Plus rja827319 - the last title of the series - also a 1st edn and author SIGNED.
These stories are loosely themed on the months of the year.There is a circularity to the series,as will be seen when all 12 books are published,although each book stands on its own. The January,March and December [the 1st,3rd and 12th books] have all first edition copies sold out,and the author expects to reprint these titles in due course.
Originally and first written and illustrated by Jani, based on her observations and inspirations while raising her two children,Rory and Miranda, at their family home in the heart of the Devonshire countryside,some 25 years or more previous,this new title though,is a continuation of that original series.
Working in watercolour and gouache provides a perfect medium for her delicate and finely detailed style; her subjects reflect facets of her experience,her infectious personality and quirky sense of humour, which combine easily with her skills as a meticulous observer of nature and interest in disappearing traditional rural customs and gentler ways of life.
An established designer with a large selection of nature and wildlife illustrations to her credit.Many of these have been licensed and commissioned both at home in the UK and worldwide to great acclaim.
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